Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this country goes through with the tractors-for-prisoners ransom deal with Castro as planned, it will set a dangerous precedent because it will encourage other countries, both large and small, to do the same thing. Castro is blackmailing the mighty U.S. and humiliating us before the rest of the world. Instead of approving such a deal, our Government should denounce it for what it is and forbid any private citizen or committee of private citizens to have anything to do with...
...Fidel Castro's idea of accepting U.S. tractors in exchange for prisoners taken in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. The U.S. dilemma: a strong sense of responsibility for the lives of the men captured in the U.S.-sponsored attack as balanced against a real repugnance for paying ransom money to such a tinhorn Commie as Fidel Castro...
...entire proposition down. As the negotiations and the cable exchanges went on last week, the public furor within the U.S. became increasingly intense. Many Americans believed deeply that the U.S. had a moral obligation to try to rescue the survivors. At the same time, most recognized that the ransom payments were humiliating to the U.S. There could be general agreement that the Kennedy Administration had bungled the whole business-because it gave the Government's stamp of approval to the deal, then tried to fog over the official U.S. role in the matter...
...farm tractors will ransom 1,200 Cubans from their homeland, maybe a nuclear submarine or two will redeem the Americans held in Red Chinese jails, and 100 B-58s will persuade the East Germans to release 10,000 of their malcontents...
...tractors Fidel Castro demanded as ransom for 1,200 imprisoned Cuban survivors of the Bay of Pigs invasion were ready, and the Tractors-for-Freedom Committee, headed by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Walter Reuther and Dr. Milton Eisenhower, was prepared to deliver them to the Cuban dictator in lots of 100. The committee still had no visible funds to pay for the tractors, but hoped to find them in 25,000 unopened letters. If and when Castro agreed to the deal, the committee would open the letters. But in order to pay the $16 million tab, each letter would have...